MCV reports that the UK retailer Game has done a deal with OnLive to sell its microconsole in its stores in time for Christmas. The hardware allows the service to be displayed through TVs and includes a joypad and costs £69.99 through OnLive's online store. We've asked how much it will retail for at Game.
In an interview, CEO Steve Perlman said the deal also means that Game's website will feature game demos powered by his company's service. The shop will also sell OnLive subscription cards.
Tecmo Koei Holdings has signed a deal to buy all shares of Atelier Iris and Ar Tonelico publisher and developer Gust from its current single shareholder, Keiken Holdings, with the aim of making Gust a wholly owned subsidiary. The deal for the 495 shares cost ¥22 million (£181,000) and will be complete later this month.
Gust already works with Tecmo Koei subsidary Koei Tecmo Net, which distributes its games in Japan. In its announcement of the deal, Tecmo Koei said that it intends to develop Gust's IP further to capitalise on fan interest in it.
PopCap has 'retired' its existing Bejeweled 2 + Blitz release for iPhone and iPod Touch in order to relaunch the game it says is the second highest selling mobile game ever, after Tetris.
Following last week's news that Team Ico lead Fumito Ueda has resigned from full-time employment at Sony, it has emerged that The Last Guardian executive producer Yoshifusa Hayama has also left Sony. He has joined east London based social game startup Bossa Studios as creative director.
Gaming industry charity GamesAid has announced LittleBigBunch, a pay-what-you-want collection of five indie PC games.
LulzSec may have caught the media’s eye as it turfed through Sony’s underwear drawer, but it is an atypical hacking outfit. Hacking isn’t just the purview of mischievous lone wolves or tech-literate politicised malcontents, it’s big business. It’s organised, corporate and run out of countries such as China and Russia, where there are few means of legal recourse. And hackers are going after the players of games like MapleStory, a pirate from which is pictured above.
The 3DS firmware update has been released across Europe, Nintendo has confirmed.
The update adds 3D video recording, allowing users to capture up to 10 minutes of footage, with time-lapse and stop-motion features included. The StreetPass Mii Plaza has also been updated, with new 3D panels for Puzzle Swap, and a new StreetPass Quest.
Nintendo has acknowledged the existence of a game-breaking bug in The Legend Of Zelda: Skyward Sword.
According to Zelda Informer, the company has acknowledged that completing parts of the Song Of The Hero quest in a certain order means the other parts don't trigger as normal.
Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has said 3DS will cross the three million sales mark in Japan two weeks faster than its predecessor DS managed.
The portable is building momentum following a global price cut in August and the release of key software over the past month, the executive told Nikkei in an interview yesterday.
He also expects the system to hit four million sales before its one year anniversary in February, according to an Andriasang translation.
The first 3DS Mario adventure outpaced its closest competitor by more than two to one in Japan’s November sales chart, ending a poor run of software sales for Nintendo’s latest console.
Super Mario 3D Land sold 542,842 copies between October 31 and November 27, according to Famitsu figures reported by Andriasang.
Cambridge-based Enslaved and Heavenly Sword developer Ninja Theory, which is currently working on a reboot of Capcom's Devil May Cry, is advertising for the position of creative director. We profiled the ambitious, technology-driven studio back in our November issue. Find all Ninja Theory's vacancies here.
Square Enix's online PC RPG Final Fantasy XIV will require a subscription fee from January 6, more than a year after the publisher made the game free to play by way of apology for the miserable state in which it launched.
Andriasang reports that the 30 and 90-day fees of ¥980 and ¥2,640 will be reduced, to ¥680 and ¥1,740 respectively, until Square Enix has finished and launched version 2.0 of the game.
Zynga has settled its copyright dispute with Brazilian social game developer Vostu.
Japanese convenience store chain Family Mart has shipped a million Dragon Quest-licensed Slime meat buns in the space of a week.
Andriasang reports that the retailer has apologised to fans who have been struggling to buy the buns, released to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Square Enix's RPG series.
You can see the buns below, along with a picture of a vaguely impressed-looking Yuji Naka, creator of Sonic The Hedgehog, brandishing one of his own.
UK secretary of state for education Michael Gove has thrown his weight behind calls for computer science to replace ICT in the national curriculum.
Speaking to students from Catmose College in Leicestershire at the ICC in Birmingham last week, Gove said: "I think one of the problems we've had is that the ICT curriculum in the past has been written for a subject that is changing rapidly all the time.
Intelligent Systems, developer of the Advance Wars series, will release Pullblox, its first game for Nintendo's 3DS, on the European eShop this Thursday.
Intelligent Systems, developer of the Advance Wars series, will release Pullblox, its first game for Nintendo's 3DS, on the European eShop this Thursday.
A pair of US high school students were yesterday awarded a $100,000 college scholarship for using Kinect to analyse human walking patterns in a project that could ultimately be used in the design of prosthetics for amputees.
Ziyuan Liu and Cassee Cain, seniors at Oak Ridge High School in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, won the Team Prize at the Siemens Competition, an annual awards ceremony designed to promote the study of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
Our January issue, which is on sale December 20, will include a Post Script article that looks at the Need For Speed series' breadth and, even though it means it doesn't always hit the right note, admirable experimentalism.
The organisers of the Independent Games Festival (IGF), the celebration of indie games which runs as part of the Game Developers Conference, has announced a multi-year partnership that will see Microsoft sponsor an award for games on the Xbox Live Arcade service.
Gree has unveiled its "borderless" new social gaming platform, promising developers "a truly global, free-to-play ecosystem."
Fumito Ueda has insisted he is still working on PS3 exclusive The Last Guardian - but has not denied that he has quit Sony.
Adam Saltsman's one-button iOS platformer Canabalt will be released for the Commodore 64 in 2012.
The port, dubbed C64anabalt, has been handled by Paul Koller, with Mikkel Hastrup responsible for the recreating the music on the C64's SID chip. The game will be available on a limited edition C64 cartridge early next year; follow the source link below for more.
Konami's Vita launch title AR Combat Digi Q: Friend Tank Batallion will be a free download, with more level packs available for purchase, marking the first appearance of the freemium model on Sony's upcoming PSP successor.
Andriasang reports that the game's first five stages will be included in the download, with a pack of levels 6 to 30 costing ¥800 (£6.50), though that will be discounted to ¥500 for the first month of Vita's release. Packs containing stages 31 to 35, and 36 to 40, will each cost ¥200 (£1.60).
Konami's Vita launch title AR Combat Digi Q: Friend Tank Batallion will be a free download, with more level packs available for purchase, marking the first appearance of the freemium model on Sony's upcoming PSP successor.
Andriasang reports that the game's first five stages will be included in the download, with a pack of levels 6 to 30 costing ¥800 (£6.50), though that will be discounted to ¥500 for the first month of Vita's release. Packs containing stages 31 to 35, and 36 to 40, will each cost ¥200 (£1.60).